Microservices
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Microservices skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 114 61 64
Rank change year-on-year -53 +3 -14
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 1,564 1,844 3,629
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.68% 4.32% 3.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.27% 4.63% 4.35%
Number of salaries quoted 1,105 965 2,711
10th Percentile £47,800 £50,000 £43,750
25th Percentile £56,250 £57,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £74,870 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.17% +15.18% -16.13%
75th Percentile £93,750 £95,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £61,206
% change year-on-year -3.57% +14.37% -9.32%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Microservices falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 68,898 39,816 83,478
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.92% 93.23% 83.93%
Number of salaries quoted 44,884 20,923 60,289
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,750 £29,250
25th Percentile £40,750 £41,000 £39,885
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £58,033 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.39% +5.51% -9.84%
75th Percentile £78,750 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,250 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £51,324 £50,000
% change year-on-year +2.29% +2.65% -9.09%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Microservices relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Microservices job vacancy trend in the UK

Microservices
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices

Microservices
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microservices over the 6 months to 28 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Microservices in the UK

Microservices
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the UK over the 6 months to 28 May 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -50 1,426 £75,000 +0.17% 580
UK excluding London -106 725 £67,500 -3.57% 365
London 0 713 £85,000 - 266
Work from Home -31 675 £69,310 -0.99% 303
North of England -57 322 £69,310 -3.74% 121
South East -58 178 £67,500 - 98
North West -57 163 £75,000 +5.26% 86
Yorkshire -34 98 £69,308 -5.94% 26
Midlands -84 79 £67,500 - 45
South West -86 65 £52,500 -23.39% 47
North East +4 61 £65,000 -9.72% 10
West Midlands -58 56 £77,500 +10.71% 24
East of England -36 40 £60,100 -3.84% 16
Scotland -71 30 £62,500 -18.73% 19
East Midlands -68 22 £65,000 - 21
Wales -44 10 £53,171 +2.25% 10
Northern Ireland -28 8 £62,500 +25.00% 10
Isle of Man - 3 £35,000 -

Microservices
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 27 (1.73%) Apache Spark
2 17 (1.09%) Confluence
3 14 (0.90%) IIS
3 14 (0.90%) OpenStack
4 13 (0.83%) Apache
5 12 (0.77%) CMS
5 12 (0.77%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 10 (0.64%) JBoss
7 8 (0.51%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 6 (0.38%) Apache Airflow
8 6 (0.38%) WordPress
9 5 (0.32%) Camunda
9 5 (0.32%) Drupal
10 4 (0.26%) GeoServer
10 4 (0.26%) WebSphere
11 3 (0.19%) Liferay
12 2 (0.13%) Apache Pulsar
12 2 (0.13%) nginx
12 2 (0.13%) NServiceBus
12 2 (0.13%) SharePoint
Applications
1 10 (0.64%) MS Visio
2 6 (0.38%) PlantUML
3 5 (0.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.26%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.19%) Maya
6 2 (0.13%) Microsoft Excel
7 1 (0.064%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 5 (0.32%) Dynamics CRM
1 5 (0.32%) Oracle ERP
2 4 (0.26%) Dynamics AX
2 4 (0.26%) Oracle Retail
2 4 (0.26%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.13%) Shopify
4 1 (0.064%) Actimize
4 1 (0.064%) Endur
4 1 (0.064%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.064%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.064%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.064%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 838 (53.58%) AWS
2 648 (41.43%) Azure
3 308 (19.69%) GCP
4 248 (15.86%) Serverless
5 156 (9.97%) SaaS
6 139 (8.89%) GitHub
7 134 (8.57%) Azure DevOps
8 117 (7.48%) AWS Lambda
9 104 (6.65%) Amazon S3
10 92 (5.88%) Amazon EKS
11 84 (5.37%) AWS CloudFormation
12 73 (4.67%) Amazon SQS
13 70 (4.48%) Amazon ECS
14 65 (4.16%) Amazon EC2
15 59 (3.77%) Azure Service Bus
16 49 (3.13%) Azure AKS
17 47 (3.01%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 46 (2.94%) GitHub Actions
19 44 (2.81%) Datadog
20 43 (2.75%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 60 (3.84%) Broadband
2 22 (1.41%) Network Security
3 11 (0.70%) DNS
3 11 (0.70%) MQTT
4 9 (0.58%) HTTP
5 8 (0.51%) VPN
6 7 (0.45%) DHCP
6 7 (0.45%) DMARC
6 7 (0.45%) Firewall
7 6 (0.38%) AMQP
7 6 (0.38%) Cisco ASA
7 6 (0.38%) Internet
7 6 (0.38%) TCP/IP
8 5 (0.32%) LTE
9 4 (0.26%) RFID
10 3 (0.19%) HTTPS
10 3 (0.19%) Hyperconnected
10 3 (0.19%) Modbus
10 3 (0.19%) SNMP
10 3 (0.19%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 204 (13.04%) NoSQL
2 197 (12.60%) MongoDB
3 182 (11.64%) PostgreSQL
4 92 (5.88%) MySQL
5 81 (5.18%) SQL Server
6 80 (5.12%) Relational Database
7 75 (4.80%) Elasticsearch
8 58 (3.71%) Azure SQL Database
9 55 (3.52%) DynamoDB
10 44 (2.81%) Amazon RDS
11 40 (2.56%) Redis
12 31 (1.98%) BigQuery
13 30 (1.92%) Big Data
14 24 (1.53%) RDBMS
15 11 (0.70%) Pinecone
16 10 (0.64%) DB2
16 10 (0.64%) Power BI
17 7 (0.45%) Hadoop
18 6 (0.38%) Data Lake
18 6 (0.38%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 199 (12.72%) Git
2 143 (9.14%) GitLab
3 131 (8.38%) Jenkins
4 57 (3.64%) TeamCity
5 45 (2.88%) JUnit
6 43 (2.75%) JIRA
7 37 (2.37%) Cucumber
8 31 (1.98%) CircleCI
8 31 (1.98%) Mockito
9 29 (1.85%) Cypress.io
9 29 (1.85%) Maven
10 26 (1.66%) Claude Code
11 17 (1.09%) SonarQube
12 15 (0.96%) JMeter
12 15 (0.96%) Selenium
12 15 (0.96%) Vite
13 12 (0.77%) Bitbucket
14 8 (0.51%) Postman
14 8 (0.51%) REST Assured
14 8 (0.51%) Visual Studio
General
1 441 (28.20%) Finance
2 302 (19.31%) Social Skills
3 162 (10.36%) Banking
4 133 (8.50%) Public Sector
5 93 (5.95%) Law
6 90 (5.75%) Analytical Skills
7 85 (5.43%) Retail
8 75 (4.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 55 (3.52%) Financial Institution
10 46 (2.94%) Back Office
11 34 (2.17%) Telecoms
12 26 (1.66%) Influencing Skills
13 23 (1.47%) Marketing
14 19 (1.21%) Advertising
15 18 (1.15%) Billing
16 15 (0.96%) Aerospace
16 15 (0.96%) Legal
17 11 (0.70%) Games
18 10 (0.64%) Front Office
18 10 (0.64%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 537 (34.34%) Developer
2 399 (25.51%) Senior
3 325 (20.78%) Software Engineer
4 224 (14.32%) Architect
5 214 (13.68%) Lead
6 137 (8.76%) Full-Stack Developer
7 136 (8.70%) Java Developer
8 119 (7.61%) Senior Developer
9 115 (7.35%) Java Engineer
10 111 (7.10%) Senior Software Engineer
11 107 (6.84%) .NET Developer
12 87 (5.56%) Solutions Architect
13 65 (4.16%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 62 (3.96%) Principal Engineer
15 61 (3.90%) Software Developer
16 57 (3.64%) Lead Developer
17 54 (3.45%) DevOps Engineer
18 50 (3.20%) Senior Java Engineer
19 48 (3.07%) Java Software Engineer
20 44 (2.81%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 342 (21.87%) React
2 340 (21.74%) .NET
3 284 (18.16%) Node.js
4 276 (17.65%) RESTful
5 270 (17.26%) Spring
6 242 (15.47%) Spring Boot
7 222 (14.19%) REST
8 205 (13.11%) Kafka
9 135 (8.63%) AngularJS
10 117 (7.48%) .NET Core
11 112 (7.16%) ASP.NET
12 108 (6.91%) Vue
13 87 (5.56%) ASP.NET Core
13 87 (5.56%) gRPC
14 83 (5.31%) HTML
15 74 (4.73%) CSS
16 67 (4.28%) .NET Framework
17 65 (4.16%) RabbitMQ
18 58 (3.71%) OAuth
19 53 (3.39%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 447 (28.58%) Cloud Native
2 271 (17.33%) Distributed Systems
3 109 (6.97%) Product Ownership
4 74 (4.73%) Enterprise Software
5 68 (4.35%) Legacy Systems
6 50 (3.20%) Greenfield Project
7 46 (2.94%) Video\Live Streaming
8 45 (2.88%) Over-the-Top Content
9 36 (2.30%) Algorithms
10 35 (2.24%) Data Structures
11 27 (1.73%) Public Cloud
12 26 (1.66%) Distributed Architecture
12 26 (1.66%) Self-Motivation
13 25 (1.60%) Onboarding
14 23 (1.47%) Mobile App
15 22 (1.41%) AI Agents
15 22 (1.41%) Blockchain
16 21 (1.34%) Legacy Applications
17 20 (1.28%) PKI
18 18 (1.15%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 94 (6.01%) Linux
2 40 (2.56%) Windows
3 20 (1.28%) Unix
4 8 (0.51%) Android
5 7 (0.45%) CentOS
5 7 (0.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (0.32%) Apple iOS
6 5 (0.32%) Debian
6 5 (0.32%) Ubuntu
7 4 (0.26%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.064%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 790 (50.51%) CI/CD
2 648 (41.43%) Agile
3 577 (36.89%) Software Engineering
4 574 (36.70%) DevOps
5 393 (25.13%) Containerisation
6 390 (24.94%) Full-Stack Development
7 362 (23.15%) Mentoring
8 326 (20.84%) Test Automation
9 309 (19.76%) Event-Driven
10 298 (19.05%) Continuous Improvement
11 293 (18.73%) AI
12 286 (18.29%) Infrastructure as Code
13 279 (17.84%) Problem-Solving
14 203 (12.98%) Scrum
15 191 (12.21%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 187 (11.96%) Technical Leadership
17 185 (11.83%) Coaching
18 181 (11.57%) Clean Code
19 180 (11.51%) TDD
20 166 (10.61%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 529 (33.82%) Java
2 404 (25.83%) Python
3 354 (22.63%) SQL
4 344 (21.99%) JavaScript
5 319 (20.40%) C#
6 254 (16.24%) TypeScript
7 129 (8.25%) Go
8 51 (3.26%) Scala
9 49 (3.13%) PHP
10 46 (2.94%) C++
11 44 (2.81%) Bash
12 30 (1.92%) C
13 28 (1.79%) Ruby
14 25 (1.60%) PL/SQL
15 23 (1.47%) Rust
16 22 (1.41%) PowerShell
17 19 (1.21%) Kotlin
18 18 (1.15%) Shell Script
19 13 (0.83%) Bicep
19 13 (0.83%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 183 (11.70%) Security Cleared
2 172 (11.00%) Degree
3 120 (7.67%) SC Cleared
4 93 (5.95%) Computer Science Degree
5 58 (3.71%) AWS Certification
6 32 (2.05%) DV Cleared
7 28 (1.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 26 (1.66%) Azure Certification
8 26 (1.66%) CISSP
9 22 (1.41%) Master's Degree
10 18 (1.15%) TOGAF Certification
11 14 (0.90%) DBS Check
11 14 (0.90%) Microsoft Certification
12 11 (0.70%) CISM
13 10 (0.64%) AWS Certified Developer
14 8 (0.51%) PhD
15 6 (0.38%) Cisco Certification
16 5 (0.32%) BPSS Clearance
16 5 (0.32%) GIAC
16 5 (0.32%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 108 (6.91%) QA
2 42 (2.69%) Accessibility
3 34 (2.17%) GDPR
4 33 (2.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 24 (1.53%) PCI DSS
6 23 (1.47%) NIST
7 21 (1.34%) SOC 2
8 14 (0.90%) GRC
9 11 (0.70%) Actionable Recommendations
10 10 (0.64%) NCSC
10 10 (0.64%) WCAG
11 8 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials
12 6 (0.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 4 (0.26%) IFRS
14 3 (0.19%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 3 (0.19%) ISO 9001
15 2 (0.13%) SEPA
16 1 (0.064%) Data Quality
16 1 (0.064%) ISO 20022
16 1 (0.064%) SLA
System Software
1 457 (29.22%) Docker
2 17 (1.09%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.19%) Firmware
4 2 (0.13%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.064%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 492 (31.46%) Kubernetes
2 300 (19.18%) Terraform
3 87 (5.56%) Grafana
4 85 (5.43%) Ansible
5 48 (3.07%) Prometheus
6 25 (1.60%) Argo
7 23 (1.47%) Kibana
8 17 (1.09%) Single Sign-On
9 13 (0.83%) Puppet
10 12 (0.77%) Cilium
11 8 (0.51%) HP Fortify
12 4 (0.26%) Packer
12 4 (0.26%) Podman
13 3 (0.19%) Istio
13 3 (0.19%) Nagios
13 3 (0.19%) Rancher
14 2 (0.13%) MIIS
14 2 (0.13%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 177 (11.32%) Microsoft
2 66 (4.22%) Google
3 53 (3.39%) Oracle
4 45 (2.88%) Typelevel
5 24 (1.53%) OpenAI
6 20 (1.28%) Dynatrace
6 20 (1.28%) Splunk
7 16 (1.02%) AppDynamics
8 14 (0.90%) IBM
9 13 (0.83%) Red Hat
10 11 (0.70%) CrowdStrike
11 10 (0.64%) Adobe
12 9 (0.58%) Cisco
12 9 (0.58%) Guidewire
12 9 (0.58%) Salesforce
12 9 (0.58%) SendGrid
13 7 (0.45%) Databricks
13 7 (0.45%) HubSpot
13 7 (0.45%) SAP
13 7 (0.45%) ServiceNow